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| From | HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.lang, alt.usage.english, alt.books.james-joyce |
| Subject | Re: Bloomsday (16 June) |
| Date | 2024-06-15 17:49 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <v4lcqa$3mt2j$5@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <v4l9mr$3mnvm$1@dont-email.me> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
On 6/15/2024 4:56 PM, Ross Clark wrote:
> "This day celebrates the life and writing of Irish author James Joyce
> (1882-1941), chiefly be(by) retracing the route through Dublin taken by
> Leonard* Bloom, the central character in _Ulysses_....the action of the
> novel takes place entirely on a single day: 16 June 1904, which was also
> the day Joyce first went out with Nora Barnacle, whom he later married."
>
> *That's _Leopold_ Bloom! Two gaffes in two days! This book needed an
> editor.
>
> Bloomsday is a real thing. A few years ago I went to a Bloomsday
> celebration at a local "Irish pub" called the Dogs Bollix. Some
> professional readings, some amateur singings, and lots of drinkings.
> Good fun.
>
> When I briefly visited Pula, Croatia (at the southern tip of Istria) in
> 2009, I was surprised to see a life-size image* of JJ, seated at a table
> outside a local cafe. I knew he had lived in Trieste (which is not far
> away); but before that, for a few months 1904-5, he had a job in Pula
> (then called Pola), teaching English at the Berlitz School, mainly to
> Austro-Hungarian naval officers.
there is a pub (with Blue Tiles) that Joyce frequented in Trieste ?
>
> *I wanted to say "statue", but is it a statue if it's sitting? Sitting
> on a horse, OK, but sitting at a table, drinking coffee?
>
> "While he was in Pola he organised the local printing of his broadsheet
> The Holy Office, which satirised both William Butler Yeats and George
> William Russell,"
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pula
one theory (or story) is that... on their first date...
Nora went down on Jim... made him really happy.
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Bloomsday (16 June) Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2024-06-16 11:56 +1200
Re: Bloomsday (16 June) HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> - 2024-06-15 17:49 -0700
Re: Bloomsday (16 June) Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2024-06-17 09:27 +1200
Re: Bloomsday (16 June) Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> - 2024-06-17 21:01 +0200
Re: Bloomsday (16 June) "HenHanna" <HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh> - 2026-05-30 16:56 +0000
Re: Bloomsday (16 June) Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2024-06-16 19:22 +0100
Re: Bloomsday (16 June) wugi <wugi@brol.invalid> - 2024-06-17 23:28 +0200
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